Tainter can refer to: People Charles Sumner Tainter (1854-1940), engineer and inventor Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (1836-1920), engineer Joseph Tainter (born 1949), anthropologist and historian Places in the United States Tainter, Wisconsin, a town Tainter Lake, Wisconsin a census-designated place Tainter Lake (Dunn County, Wisconsin), a reservoir Other Tainter gate on a dam See also Taintor, a surname